Art
3 Tricks to Make Frame TV Art Look More Realistic
Art
3 Tricks to Make Frame TV Art Look More Realistic
It's not often I change out art in a room, but if I do, it's most likely the Frame TV art. It's just so easy and so inexpensive (once you have the Samsung Frame TV of course). But you can set a landscape-sized background on a lot of TV brands these days! I've rounded up […]
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August 23, 2024
DIY
How to Install a Ceiling Medallion
DIY
How to Install a Ceiling Medallion
This post is sponsored by Lowe's Home Improvement We picked a new chandelier in Greta's room to continue her room makeover, and I decided to add a little more drama in the form of a ceiling medallion. I went to Lowes.com to check out their selection, and they had an incredible range from ornate Victorian […]
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August 7, 2024
Art
How to Display ANY Digital Art on Your Frame TV (and a few spectacular art options!)
Art
How to Display ANY Digital Art on Your Frame TV (and a few spectacular art options!)
This week we're really focusing on putting the family room back together and every step feels monumental. The space, which is above our garage and just up the back staircase from the kitchen, and at the end of the hall from the girls' bedrooms, has become the central location for our family to be together […]
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December 1, 2021
Design
Cabinet Overlays 101
Design
Cabinet Overlays 101
It's been an exciting week in the kitchen with the installation of our lower cabinet frames. Our countertops got templated yesterday and once they are installed, the rest of the cabinets will be placed. So, while I've got cabinets on the mind, I thought it would be a good time to break down some cabinet […]
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November 10, 2021
DIY
DIY: How To Add Planking to Any Wall or Room
DIY
DIY: How To Add Planking to Any Wall or Room
A while back, I shared in this post that I wanted to add planking to the entire bonus room (or family room), wall-to-wall-to-ceiling. We've added planking many times before, but to never an entire room. The bonus room is where we're finding ourselves hanging out together as a family. We love to pile in on […]
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September 30, 2021
Design
Design School: All You Need to Know About Mixing Metals
Design
Design School: All You Need to Know About Mixing Metals
I mentioned last week in this blog post that we came up with a lighting plan for the whole house, and this week we have an electrician here, wiring for all the lighting and outlets and switch plates. It's about time we had some efficient lighting in our lives, and I'm also excited to be […]
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September 29, 2021
DIY
4 Ways To Hide Your TV Wires (and a Bonus Room Mock-up!)
DIY
4 Ways To Hide Your TV Wires (and a Bonus Room Mock-up!)
The bonus room has already evolved from the playroom since we moved in. I quickly realized that it was far too central to have toys emptied on the floor, so we swapped the girls playroom where the theatre room was going to be. Funny how much has changed since we first pictured our family living […]
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August 16, 2021
Inspiration
How to use Pinterest to find Sources and Inspiration
Inspiration
How to use Pinterest to find Sources and Inspiration
You can see more of our bathroom here! Anytime I share inspiration images, I get a slew of questions about how to even FIND these kinds of beautiful imagery. I guess I'm still old school because I turn to Pinterest. But whenever I say that I usually hear a bunch about how Pinterest never shows […]
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May 5, 2021
DIY
Removing the Wallpaper in the Laundry Room
DIY
Removing the Wallpaper in the Laundry Room
Some of our readers were really apprehensive about us putting up wallpaper in the playroom, Greta's room, Faye's room, and Polly's room, and usually those people have had terrible experiences with removing wallpaper. Now that we have removed the wallpaper in the laundry room, we completely get it. What a pain! You're kind of at […]
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March 10, 2021
Design
My Formula for Mixing Patterns in our Home
Design
My Formula for Mixing Patterns in our Home
Recently we had somebody make a comment on Instagram about how our home is feeling so cohesive, even though each room is so different - and how?? The truth is, none of this is by accident. We are very intentional about how we design our spaces, and even though yes, the rooms are entirely not […]
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February 16, 2021
Art
5 Tips for Hanging a Collected Vintage Gallery Wall
Art
5 Tips for Hanging a Collected Vintage Gallery Wall
You can find all of our bathroom sources here! One of the most asked questions is, "How do I put together an organic, vintage gallery wall?" We shared the family photo gallery wall we did in our hallway right here, but the gallery wall in our bathroom was different. Did you sense that, too? The […]
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February 1, 2021
Design
4 Photoshop/Lightroom Tricks When Design Has You Stumped
Design
4 Photoshop/Lightroom Tricks When Design Has You Stumped
Andrea Ahedo, our Visual Media producer, is back for another tip! (Check out how to make a mood board here!) If you ever wished you could have your house try something on--whether it be a paint color, wallpaper, light fixture, art!--this post is for you! She's sharing 4 of her tips and tricks to try […]
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January 21, 2021
DIY
How we layered stain to take a wood countertop from dark cherry to a white oak look!
DIY
How we layered stain to take a wood countertop from dark cherry to a white oak look!
We still have a few finishing touches to put on the girls' office (see all the plans here!), but over the last week we tackled a really fun DIY that transformed the dark cherry stained wood countertop that was there into a white oak looking one that matches our floor a little better. And today, we wanted to […]
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October 7, 2020
DIY
How To: Laying Peel and Stick Tile over the Bathroom Floor!
DIY
How To: Laying Peel and Stick Tile over the Bathroom Floor!
We have been doing a quick phase 1 renovation of the girls' bathroom (read more about the plans here!) over the last week and it's coming along so well! We painted the countertops last week using the same countertop paint (and color--Putty!) as we used in our kitchen in our first house nearly a decade […]
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September 28, 2020
Decor
Hanging Ceiling Mount Curtains in the Dining Room
Decor
Hanging Ceiling Mount Curtains in the Dining Room
I did something in the dining room and it kind of changed everything. A few weeks ago, we hung some art on either side of the arched door and it filled in the space fine, but it actually sparked a different idea--a better idea. Why don't we hang curtains on that wall?! And so we […]
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September 24, 2020
Decor
Are You Hanging Curtains Correctly?? (Plus, our favorite curtains and rods!)
Decor
Are You Hanging Curtains Correctly?? (Plus, our favorite curtains and rods!)
My friend Marco Polo'd me from her new house earlier this week. She walked me through room by room showing me everything they have done and wanted to do. When she got to her daughters' room, she stopped, "Look at the curtains--did we do them wrong? They are just huggggginnnggg the window and look weird." […]
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July 29, 2020
Design
Would You Buy Something Refurbished? (I do...a LOT!)
Design
Would You Buy Something Refurbished? (I do...a LOT!)
This post is sponsored by eBay. A few fun facts: I have purchased five vacuums (two for our home + three for gifts), a fancy blow dryer, three Frame TVs, two Bose speakers (with perfect sound!), countless kitchen gadgets and other electronics over the years from eBay — all of which were "Certified Refurbished." To […]
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June 25, 2020
Entertaining
The First Dinner Party in Our Dining Room & All My Tips!
Entertaining
The First Dinner Party in Our Dining Room & All My Tips!
Last week, Idaho moved to stage 4 of the reopening which allows gatherings up to 99 people. After months and months of social distancing, my family of 21 got together for the first time this year! It was also the first dinner party in our new dining room! We embraced the opportunity and dreams came […]
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June 18, 2020
DIY
How To: DIY Canvas Floater Frame
DIY
How To: DIY Canvas Floater Frame
Our oldest daughter, Greta (10 this month!) has a real passion for horses. She's taking riding lessons and learning so much that I have a feeling our pasture in the backyard won't be empty for too long. So when it came time to choose art for her room, horses were a natural choice. I went […]
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February 5, 2020
DIY
How to Put on a Duvet Cover In Under 3 Minutes (Without crawling inside!) So EASY!
DIY
How to Put on a Duvet Cover In Under 3 Minutes (Without crawling inside!) So EASY!
This post was created from a real life moment. We were getting our room ready to shoot an update last week and I asked Andi, our Visual Media Producer, to give me a hand putting the duvet cover on. To which she said, "Tell me I don't have to crawl inside. I ALWAYS crawl inside of mine." […]
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January 29, 2020
